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 | | They were a young couple to have a ten-year-old son; they were handsome and high-spirited; he, lusty and chick-set, a true Dutchman; she, showing her Palatine breeding, dark, brown-eyed, with fl hair braided round her head, her slim body limber and quick about her work. |
 | | She had had a restless night; it was seldom that her husband had been away overnight--three times since they had been married, she could name each one--but those times it was business in Albany that had kept him away, settling the rent with Patroon Van Rensselaer, or looking up a slave for his mother. |
 | | A line of smoke, snatched from the chimney by the wind, showed her that Edward was down and had freshened the fire. |
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